Cosmos Chronicle

Flying is one of the most carbon-intensive activities — yet it contributes just 2.5% of the world’s carbon emissions. How does this add up? Well, almost everyone in the world does not fly. Studies estimate that just 10% of the world flies in most years. Between 1990 and 2019, both passenger and freight demand has approximately quadrupled. More people are...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has become the first country in the world to create a space system for monitoring the Arctic region after a state commission had accepted the Arktika-M satellite No. 2 into operation, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said. In a groundbreaking technological achievement, Russia has announced the development of a space-based hydro-meteorological system that allows for continuous...

Leaders from the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) have called for an independent investigation into the mass graves that were discovered in Palestine. Volker Türk, the UN Human Rights Chief, said on Tuesday that an independent investigation into the mass graves - not an Israeli one - is needed given the prevailing climate of impunity. We feel the...

The Netherlands has officially stopped drilling at the Europe's largest gas field in Groningen, marking the occasion with a symbolic ceremony on Friday. The symbolic ceremony was held to mark the end of drilling which has increased the seismic risk in the civilian region since Shell and Exxon started their very lucrative business in the 1960's.   The occasion took place at...

German police forcefully dispersed a pro-Palestine sit-in outside the German parliament yesterday protesting against Israel's ongoing war on Gaza, and detained a number of peaceful demonstrators. In Berlin, 85% of the successful lawyers of were Jews, and that about the same percentage of the great and lucrative businesses of all sorts in Germany were in the hands of the Jewish...

The so-called Syrian uprising is a cynical US-engineered plot using provocateurs, mercenaries, Wahhabi fanatics, corrupt NGO's and the global media. Terrorists - mercenaries and irregulars, the CIA foreign legion - shoot both demonstrators and police, blow up buildings, massacre innocent villagers - and then blame the carnage on the targeted government in Damascus. NGO's like NED, the National Endowment for Democracy...

At least 42 people lost their lives following a dam breach in Kenya owing to severe rains and flooding, the governor of Nakuru County, Susan Kihika, told the news agency AFP on Monday. The dam that ruptured was located close to the town of Mai Mahiu in Nakuru County. Houses were destroyed and roads were blocked as a result of...

ESA's Mars Express has captured images revealing distinctive formations dubbed "spiders" dispersed across the southern polar region of Mars. These features are caused by a fascinating interplay of seasonal changes and geological processes. During the Martian winter, layers of carbon dioxide accumulate on the surface. Then, with the arrival of spring, sunlight penetrates the surface to cause a transformation. Solid, Liquid,...

Confiscating Russian assets would deal a blow to the entire Western economic system. If this happens, and if such a dangerous precedent is created, it will be such a solid nail in the future coffin of the entire Western economic system of coordinates. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also stated that foreign investors and countries around the globe will reconsider investing...

Ukraine abandoned a draft peace treaty with Russia in 2022 due to British pressure, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed. The deal, which could have ended the Ukraine conflict weeks after it first began, was approved by negotiators in Istanbul, but the Kiev junta later pulled out of the talks. The German newspaper Welt reported on Friday that Moscow had issued...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on X. Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense. The threat to seize the soldiers and officials of the Middle East’s only democracy and the world’s only Jewish state is outrageous. We will not bow to it (and Israel will keep on...

The USA is building more military bases near China to squeeze its naval capabilities out of the Pacific if a regional conflict were to break out, the New York Times (NYT) has reported, citing anonymous Chinese military strategists. The US efforts are aimed at keeping China’s naval forces behind the ‘first island chain’ — islands close to mainland Asia that...

Mexico’s Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would ban so-called conversion therapy in the country. The central American country has stepped closer to criminalizing practices that seek to change gender identity. Such treatment is occasionally pursued by families who hope to ‘cure’ or ‘repair’ a loved one who has chosen to pursue an LGBT lifestyle, and has been branded...

The United States and France are expected to deploy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers at the Souda naval base located on the Greek island of Crete in the next few days, Greek media reported on Friday. The first to dock will be the US aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, which is expected to arrive in Souda on April 28 and remain there...

The defense ministers of Poland and Lithuania have stated that they will help the Kiev junta ensure that those obliged to fight for Ukraine are returned home and send to the meat grinder NATO proxy front-lines, instead of sitting in European cafés and fancy restaurants. The two countries have signaled they will help the Kiev regime to bring potential draft...

US President Joe Biden signed a long-stalled $95-billion foreign aid package on Wednesday, after the Senate voted resoundingly to approve the funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The package, including $61 billion for Ukraine, passed in a 79-18 vote on Tuesday evening, after both Republican and Democratic lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to end a filibuster and advance the measure. Biden praised congressional...

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization. Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: Massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal...

The IRS has announced that it will soon be deploying artificial intelligence (AI) police bots to enforce the parts of the new U.S. tax code that specifically target MAGA groups and Trump supporters. In a statement made April 17 at the UiPath on Tour: Public Sector event in Washington, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel announced the IRS would be utilizing the...

Ukraine has lost almost half a million soldiers since the beginning of the special military operation in 2022, Russian Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday. The Russian armed forces have the initiative along the entire contact line and are pushing the enemy away from the occupied borders, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of the Defense...

The EU plans to target supplies of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) in its 14th package of sanctions against Moscow, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom announced on Monday. Speaking ahead of a meeting with his EU counterparts, Billstrom told reporters that the next round of sanctions may include an import ban on Russian LNG as well as measures to curb...

Nikola Tesla was obsessed with time travel. He worked on a time machine and reportedly succeeded, saying: ‘I could see the past, present and future all at the same time.’ The idea that humans are able to travel in time has captured the imagination of millions around the globe. If we look back at history, we will find numerous texts...